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Derventio (Malton) Yorkshire, England.
Agricolan fort on the site of an earlier legionary fortress, partly covered by
a Roman town and a mediaeval castle and mansion, and just W of old Malton Priory
Church. Mentioned twice as Derventione on Iter I (Ant. It. and Not. dig). The
site covered a crossing of the river Derwent. The fort wall was laid on a foundation
of clay and stone, and well-preserved gates with guardrooms still stood at the
time of excavation. The pits of the earlier fortress lay outside the fort, and
yielded an abundance of mid 1st c. pottery and tiles. This fortress may have been
built by Petcilius Cericles on his advance from Lincoln to York.
The fortress was destroyed and corn from the granaries laid along
the ramparts and systematically burned. This carbonized layer divides the earlier
and later periods of the fort's history. Later the fortress showed signs of decay:
burials were common even in the guardrooms. The later town was built along the
road to the ford and on the other bank through Norton. Workshops and stores were
common, and there were potters' kilns in Norton. The earliest buildings were of
wood, but some of the later buildings were of stone and had mosaic floors.
G.F. Wilmot, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Feb 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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